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For Real Estate Investors: A Lesson in Clarity
Recently, I was conducting the last class in my course on real estate investment analysis that I teach in Columbia’s MSRED program. I had assigned my 55 students a series of case studies (much like those in my book, Mastering Real Estate Investment) and told them to build financial pro forms and discuss the reasoning behind their analyses. After reading and commenting all those analyses, I felt there was one overarching theme on which I wanted to focus my final remarks to the troops: The theme was “clarity.” Continue reading
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The Flavor of the Month: Apartment Investing
It comes as no surprise to those of us who are a bit long in the tooth: The recent economic environment has been bad for almost everything, but it’s good for multi-family investment property. When credit flows freely, almost anyone … Continue reading
New Mac-Compatible Releases of RealData Software
We’ve supported the Macintosh with Excel-based products since the Mac first came out in 1984. (In fact, way back then we received an award as one of “100 Most Important Companies on the Macintosh.”) But a few years ago, Microsoft … Continue reading
Cash Flow Analysis — Annual or Monthly?
A reader of one of my books wrote to me recently with a very worthwhile question. When we build a pro-forma analysis of future cash flows from a real estate investment, why do we annualize those cash flows instead dealing … Continue reading
Excel 2007 – New File Types, Macro Security and Other Mysteries
When Microsoft released Excel 2007 it deployed some of the most extensive changes to the product in many years. It introduced an entirely new user interface, a new menu format called the “Ribbon,” enhanced security, and an entirely new data … Continue reading
New investment analysis service — and data form
If you subscribe to our e-newsletter, the RealData Dispatch, then you know that we just launched a new service where we will run a property analysis for you, using your data and our software. All you do is download a … Continue reading
Download sample chapters from my new book, “Mastering Real Estate Investment”
Hello All – I thought you might like an opportunity to see some sample chapters from my new book, so I’m making two downloads available. The first section of the book is devoted to 37 key formulas that every real … Continue reading